Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because it cost the College $1000 every time a student moved off. This was during the fund-raising campaign for Currier, which many of the students resented. They felt they had not been asked whether they would prefer a fourth house or apartments. They asserted that the College should absorb the $1000 person deficit rather than build Currier...
Married to a Dutch baroness and the father of two grown children. Luns is a speed reader whose photographic memory enables him to absorb history and Foreign Ministry cables even as he is watching television. A member of the moderate Catholic People's Party, he makes little attempt to disguise his scorn for progressive Catholics within his party, and for leftists of any ilk. While looking at TV, he says, "I get up and leave when some leftist starts saving the whole world." Luns, who has served far longer in office than any other Western Foreign
...incident [April 26]. What an insulting way to go about re-establishing relations with this country. This should really tell us something of the contempt in which we are held by our enemizs. The amount of space and profundity devoted to this insult shows how willing we are to absorb...
...team has been able to absorb the loss of Fish in singles without significantly weakening the line-up. Randy Barnett moves up to number three, Bill Brock to number four, and Tom Loring to number five. Peter Briggs will fill...
...which the child is praised lavishly for each completed assignment. The cause of the motivation problem is still overlooked. The child is not allowed to grow for any of his own reasons. School only presents a body of knowledge separate from his experience and expects him to happily absorb it. He usually does, but not because he wants to. Not much is left in someone after twelve years of this education...